I understand this may not be at all possible, but the team at Massdrop mentioned that it may be possible to ship the original batch early. Is that still the case or not? Again completely understandable if you guys can't, but would appreciate the response anyway.

not completely true. in one of the threads a massdrop employee mentioned that they were attempting to get the first batch out earlier than dec 18th and were working with Sennheiser. I don't expect this to happen, but just wanted to see if any employee could comment on the matter a few months after first mentioning this possibility.

hahahahaha...... from the horse's mouth (kunalkamar) in reply to Nick123456"Haha, we are actually working really hard in the background to ship these earlier to community members. However, right now there are too many moving pieces and we'd prefer to give a precise answer when we know more. "